Hello again Stefan. Some good news: I set a fixed channel on the 2.4GHz Access Point (to 6) and now I get a stable connection, although not constantly fast. Let's say average around 10mbps. I think those messages are related to channel settings. Every time I select a different channel, I get one fatal firmware error on dmesg. But then, no more. Additionally, this brought to my mind that I had to do the same on the 5GHz channel because on Linux I got continuous disconnections if the channel was "Auto".
That's good, and I'm glad to share this piece of news. Now I'll spend some time tweaking gnome desktop to see if it can get a little bit close to what I'm used to on Linux, because it seems rather slow in comparison. If you are aware of some optimization guidelines, that would be great. Kind regards and thanks again G El jue., 23 abr. 2020 a las 12:52, Giacomo (<[email protected]>) escribió: > One more thing: what about trying tweaking the settings for the 2.4G on > the Access point? Don't know, fixed channel or something... > Are there any parameters in the driver that can be set? > > Regards > G. > > El jue., 23 abr. 2020 a las 12:50, Giacomo (<[email protected]>) > escribió: > >> Hello again >> >> >> El jue., 23 abr. 2020 a las 12:31, Stefan Sperling (<[email protected]>) >> escribió: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:13:09PM +0200, Giacomo wrote: >>> > Hi Stefan. Thanks for Your prompt response! >>> > Since I seem to understand firmware is taken from linux iwlwifi, my >>> idea >>> > was to understand which one(s) you picked up and how you built the >>> > package iwx-firmware-20191022p0. >>> > Maybe worth trying with some other .ucode in there.. don't know, just >>> > guessing. >>> > I am not an expert >>> >>> Just dropping in another firmware won't magically fix anything. >>> Firmware and driver need to be in sync for things to work. >>> >>> >> I understand >> >> >>> I picked the lowest FW version (46) the device supports because >>> this means the least amount of changes had to be made relative >>> to iwm(4) code (the iwx driver code was derived from iwm). >>> >>> > What do you mean by specific environment? >>> > It is a PCI-E card installed on my desktop. Yesterday I did a fresh >>> > snapshot of 6.7 installation and configured the card with WPA2. >>> > Even before configuring it and being able to connect to the network >>> > (stuttering) dmesg frequently printed that message related to "SCAN". >>> >>> Sounds like you have 'ifconfig iwx0 debug' enabled? >>> >> >> Not that I am aware of :-) >> Never typed any debug on the command line, nor in /etc/hostname.iwx0 >> If in case, how to check it is enabled? >> >> >>> I don't see why SCAN messages would appear otherwise. >>> >> >> Actually, my mistake. SOME OF the dmesg messages ended with a reference >> to SCAN, probably prior to connect to the wpa. >> AS you can see from my initial message, in the attached dmesg there is no >> reference to SCAN. >> >> >>> >>> Frequent printing to dmesg can interfere with regular operation. >>> Please only enable 'debug' if really needed. >>> >>> > I tried to measure the speed as soon as I got a desktop working, and it >>> > goes from some hundred to 800/900 Kbits per second. >>> > Probably this very slow rate has to do with unlucky firmware and >>> continuous >>> > connection resets. >>> > Gmail is not able to load, for example. >>> > >>> > What is the speed you get? Is it stable? >>> >>> It is working OK for me up with up to somewhere around 20 Mbps. >>> Linux can of course drive the device to be a lot faster than that but >>> we don't support full 11n, let alone 11ac, yet. >>> >> >> Yes, I've read it in man page. 20Mbps would be good indeed, and expected >> for 802.11g. >> And yes, with linux I reach 60Mbps in 11n, or ac, don't know exactly.. >> >> Let me know if I can help somehow >> >> Kind regards, Giacomo >> >> >> >> -- >> Giacomo S. >> http://www.giacomos.it >> >> Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale >> Strada Statale 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park >> 34149 Basovizza, Trieste ITALY >> - >> 040 3758073 >> 328 3237959 >> >> > > -- > Giacomo S. > http://www.giacomos.it > > Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale > Strada Statale 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park > 34149 Basovizza, Trieste ITALY > - > 040 3758073 > 328 3237959 > > -- Giacomo S. http://www.giacomos.it Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale Strada Statale 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park 34149 Basovizza, Trieste ITALY - 040 3758073 328 3237959
